The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a gorgeous new view of one of our nearest galactic neighbors, which is full of ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

Credit: I. Heywood, SARAO "Space tornadoes" are swirling near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, new telescope observations have revealed in unprecedented detail.

could our galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) also blow its top? And if so, what would this mean for life in the Milky Way? While larger jets have been observed in the past ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

Astronomers find strange, tornado-like filaments of gas rotating around the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, revealing ...

Gaia has charted the cosmos since 2014, creating a vast encyclopedia of the positions and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond. It is difficult to capture the breadth of ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view ... near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters could play an important role in distributing organic molecules throughout the galaxy.